An unprecedented hack impacting some of Twitter's most powerful users again highlighted how much the platform is targeted by bad actors — and raised alarms among some security experts about the social network's preparation to deal with that ongoing threat
On Wednesday, the Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Apple, among others, were compromised and used to solicit Bitcoin donations as part of a broader scam. While the security incident was far larger than any other in Twitter's history, it is certainly not the first time Twitter 's platform has been misused.
"Twitter by nature is intended to be like a wire service," said Douglas Schmidt, a professor at Vanderbilt University and cybersecurity expert."Its reach is even greater in real time than Facebook's." To make matters more complicated, Twitter has fewer resources than a company like Facebook, which has a market valuation more than 20 times greater than that of Twitter.
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